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[quote user="jfugate"] Just for the record, a few months ago I spoke at length with Rick Selby (the columnist who did Student Fare) about the demise of Student Fare and he told me he needed to move on to other things in his life, so he bowed out of doing the column. MR had no one to replace him, so they dropped the column. Rick said there was no big, bad "we don't care about students" motive on the part of MR or Kalmbach, it's just that you need somebody who has the writer skills and the stick-to-it-ive-ness to keep writing the column month after month after month. Anybody on here with those qualifications who would like to contact MR? I bet they would jump at the chance. They have a very big interest in seeing the hobby grow among the young, for obvious reasons!  [/quote] I would like to see Student Fare come back.  It gave students an opprotunity to see that there were other teenagers out there interested in the hobby which can at least give them some comfort to know they aren't alone.  For me, I heard about the TAMR through that column which lead to many great personal opprotunities for me in the hobby such as visiting well known model railroads, touring real railroad facilities, and writing a column for MR's competitor Model Railroad News about the TAMR for 3 years.  I also made a lot of friends who I still see.  It would be nice to have an outlet for students/teenagers out there just so they know they aren't alone.
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